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History of Life

GeoSpeak

Question:

the remains or physical evidence of an organism preserved by geological process


Answer:

fossil



Question:

the theory that continents move and were once part of a continent called Pangaea


Answer:

plate tectonics



Question:

the trace or remains of an organism preserved by geological process


Answer:

fossil



Question:

the name for continents in one landmass surrounded by gigantic ocean


Answer:

Pangaea



Question:

event that may be caused by extreme changes in climate


Answer:

mass extinction



Primates

Question:

What physical feature allows primates to grip and hold on to things.


Answer:

opposable thumbs



Question:

Recent hominids include


Answer:

Homo sapiens and Neanderthals



Question:

This primate is also the first hominid estimated to have lived over 3 million years ago.


Answer:

autralopithecines (Lucy)



Question:

This allows primates to see in three dimensions


Answer:

binocular vision



Question:

Name the four main primate groups


Answer:

apes and chimpanzees

hominids

lemurs

monkeys



It's About Time

Question:

the standard method of dividing Earth's long history into parts


Answer:

geologic time scale



Question:

a timeline of life provided by the remains or imprints of dead organisms


Answer:

fossil record



Question:

any method of determining whether an event or object is older or younger than others.


Answer:

relative dating



Question:

This era had the greatest mass extinction event in which 90% of all life on earth was destroyed.


Answer:

Paleozoic



Question:

The era we live in today


Answer:

Cenozoic



Not Gumball

Question:

Name of the scientist that identified the mechanism for which all life changes and adapts over long periods of time - mirroring chagnes in geologic time.


Answer:

Darwin



Question:

This theory explains the process by which organisms become well-adapted to their environment.


Answer:

natural selection



Question:

The fact that all organisms have DNA as their genetic material is evidence that


Answer:

all organisms decended from a common ancestor



Question:

Groups of individuals of the same species living in the same place


Answer:

population



Question:

a group of organisms that can mate with one another to produce fertile offspring


Answer:

species



Creature Feature

Question:

When a single population evolves into 2 populations that cannot interbeed anymore


Answer:

speciation



Question:

A group of organisms that can mate with each other to produce offspring


Answer:

species



Question:

A skeletal feature that whales have that are evidence that it decended from land animals


Answer:

hip bones



Question:

This feature of the Galapogos finches is very unique.


Answer:

beak



Question:

Populations of insects can quickly adapt to insecticides because this is very short in them


Answer:

generation time